User:Ghane/NAv6

The National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6) is a Research Group under Universiti Sains Malaysia, focussing on R&D activities in IPv6.

History
Next Generation Networks (NGN) group started off in 1992 under the Network Research Group (NRG), School of Computer Sciences in Universiti Sains Malaysia. Next Generation Networks is an effort to develop and deploy advanced network applications, services and technologies for educational and industrial purposes. In March 2005, the Malaysian government recognized the NGN group as a pioneer in the area of IPv6 expertise in the country by awarding the NGN group the "National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence" (NAv6) status.

Focus Areas
Currently, the main focus of the Group is IPv6.

The Group, in its previous incarnations, has worked on, and commercialised projects in:
 * Multimedia Conferencing Systems
 * Network Monitoring

Academics
The Group offers, under the USM umbrella, MSc and PhD programmes, in Computer Sciences and Network technologies.

Research
Current research focuses on IPv6, with emphasis on easing adoption. As part of this, it has developed workbooks and templates to assist end-user organisations in migration. It has also developed tools and methodologies to discover and document existing networks.

There is also an active focus to communicate the benefits of a move to IPv6 to the end-user community.

Currently, research programmes continue on improving security through network monitoring.

Consultancy
Till 2010, NAv6 concentrated on increasing adoption of IPv6 for web sites run by the Malaysia Government. As part of the initiatives to enhance services delivered to residents and citizens by the Government, there were concerns that the shortage of IPv4 addresses would hamper increased adoption.

Similar efforts were made to assist ISPs such as Maxis and Celcom, leading to Malaysia now having multiple commercial providers that can provide Dual-Stack to enterprises.

NAv6 has now shifted focus on providing advisory and implementation services to enterprises that are leaf-nodes in networks. It is expanding in ASEAN, and India.

Training and Certification
NAv6 provides training on IPv6 using course material developed internally, with assistance from faculty at USM. These courses include:


 * introductory (non-technical) for decision makers
 * Network administration
 * Advanced Routing and ISP setup

Certification is overseen by USM, and endorsed by IPv6 Forum and WIDE Project.